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Visual object tracking, which is representing a major interest in image processing field, has facilitated numerous real world applications. Among them, equipping unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with real time robust visual trackers for all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Bowen Li , Changhong Fu , Fangqiang Ding , Junjie Ye , Fuling Lin

Multi-object tracking (MOT) in UAV-based video is challenging due to variations in viewpoint, low resolution, and the presence of small objects. While other research on MOT dedicated to aerial videos primarily focuses on the academic aspect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Nhat-Tan Do , Nhi Ngoc-Yen Nguyen , Dieu-Phuong Nguyen , Trong-Hop Do

Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) has traditionally focused on a few specific categories, restricting its applicability to real-world scenarios involving diverse objects. Open-Vocabulary Multi-Object Tracking (OVMOT) addresses this by enabling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Zekun Qian , Wei Feng , Ruize Han , Junhui Hou

Prior correlation filter (CF)-based tracking methods for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have virtually focused on tracking in the daytime. However, when the night falls, the trackers will encounter more harsh scenes, which can easily lead…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Bowen Li , Changhong Fu , Fangqiang Ding , Junjie Ye , Fuling Lin

Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) is a crucial computer vision task that aims to predict the bounding boxes and identities of objects simultaneously. While state-of-the-art methods have made remarkable progress by jointly optimizing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Yukun Su , Ruizhou Sun , Xin Shu , Yu Zhang , Qingyao Wu

Vision-based object tracking has boosted extensive autonomous applications for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). However, the dynamic changes in flight maneuver and viewpoint encountered in UAV tracking pose significant difficulties, e.g. ,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Liangliang Yao , Changhong Fu , Sihang Li , Guangze Zheng , Junjie Ye

We propose an object tracking method, SFTrack++, that smoothly learns to preserve the tracked object consistency over space and time dimensions by taking a spectral clustering approach over the graph of pixels from the video, using a fast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Elena Burceanu

Visual Object Tracking (VOT) has synchronous needs for both robustness and accuracy. While most existing works fail to operate simultaneously on both, we investigate in this work the problem of conflicting performance between accuracy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Jinghao Zhou , Bo Li , Lei Qiao , Peng Wang , Weihao Gan , Wei Wu , Junjie Yan , Wanli Ouyang

Drones have proven to be useful in many industry segments such as security and surveillance, where e.g. on-board real-time object tracking is a necessity for autonomous flying guards. Tracking and following suspicious objects is therefore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Maarten Vandersteegen , Kristof Vanbeeck , Toon goedeme

Conventional multi-object tracking (MOT) systems are predominantly designed for pedestrian tracking and often exhibit limited generalization to other object categories. This paper presents a generalized tracking framework capable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Hamidreza Hashempoor , Yu Dong Hwang

Embodied Visual Tracking (EVT) is a fundamental ability that underpins practical applications, such as companion robots, guidance robots and service assistants, where continuously following moving targets is essential. Recent advances have…

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is vital for applications such as disaster response, logistics delivery, and urban inspection. However, existing methods often struggle with insufficient multimodal fusion,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Hengxing Cai , Jinhan Dong , Jingjun Tan , Jingcheng Deng , Sihang Li , Zhifeng Gao , Haidong Wang , Zicheng Su , Agachai Sumalee , Renxin Zhong

Multiple object tracking (MOT) has been successfully investigated in computer vision. However, MOT for the videos captured by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) is still challenging due to small object size, blurred object appearance, and very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Mufeng Yao , Jiaqi Wang , Jinlong Peng , Mingmin Chi , Chao Liu

This paper introduces a novel approach to video object detection detection and tracking on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). By incorporating metadata, the proposed approach creates a memory map of object locations in actual world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Benjamin Kiefer , Yitong Quan , Andreas Zell

Navigation and localization of UAVs present a challenge when global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) are disrupted and unreliable. Traditional techniques, such as simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) and visual odometry (VO),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Haoling Li , Jiuniu Wang , Zhiwei Wei , Wenjia Xu

Multi-View Multi-Object Tracking (MV-MOT) aims to localize and maintain consistent identities of objects observed by multiple sensors. This task is challenging, as viewpoint changes and occlusion disrupt identity consistency across views…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Aditya Iyer , Jack Roberts , Nora Ayanian

Achieving both efficiency and strong discriminative ability in lightweight visual tracking is a challenge, especially on mobile and edge devices with limited computational resources. Conventional lightweight trackers often struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Juntao Liang , Jun Hou , Weijun Zhang , Yong Wang

Object detection in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery presents significant challenges. Issues such as densely packed small objects, scale variations, and occlusion are commonplace. This paper introduces RT-DETR++, which enhances the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Yuan Shufang

Visual object tracking has significantly promoted autonomous applications for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). However, learning robust object representations for UAV tracking is especially challenging in complex dynamic environments, when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Changhong Fu , Xiang Lei , Haobo Zuo , Liangliang Yao , Guangze Zheng , Jia Pan

Open-vocabulary multi-object tracking (OVMOT) represents a critical new challenge involving the detection and tracking of diverse object categories in videos, encompassing both seen categories (base classes) and unseen categories (novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Zekun Qian , Ruize Han , Junhui Hou , Linqi Song , Wei Feng